This is a bug-fixing release. Most bugs reported since the release ofversion 2.0 have been fixed. There are no new features. You can helpmake Octave more reliable by reporting any bugs you find tobug-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu.

Octave is a high-level interactive language primarily intended fornumerical computations. It is mostly compatible with Matlab.

-- John W. Eatonjwe@bevo.che.wisc.eduUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonDepartment of Chemical Engineering

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